Feast of Lanterns 2023

There’s a lot the goes into making Feast of Lanterns possible every year. If you have an hour to hang lanterns or all day to lend a hand, we could use your help! Tasks are simple, the atmosphere fun, and the work rewarding.

The Feast of Lanterns is a historic festival based on the Near Eastside of Indianapolis. Its earliest incarnations in the late 1800s were of small gatherings and decorated front porches in nearby neighborhoods like Woodruff Place. By 1909 these neighborhood events had morphed in to a single, larger festival that took place in Spades Park. This year’s Feast of Lanterns, hosted by Lanterns Foundation, brings a refocus on the origins of the event, local neighbors and neighborhoods working together to not only put on a festival but also to build community.

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